It had all the makings of a classic. Villanova and Temple, both ranked in the top 25 at the start of the night. Philly players on both rosters, familiar faces, star power, bragging rights on the line, and a packed Pavilion with a buzz in the air. What did this perfect storm of Big 5 basketball amount to? In a word or two, blue-balls.
As a Temple graduate, but the son of a Villanova graduate and...

Villanova has dominated the Big 5 for about the last decade winning or at least sharing the title in 6 of those seasons (shared with Temple in 2005 and 2008). However, it is most recently that Penn, La Salle, St. Joes, and even more so Temple have evened the playing field a bit.
Historically pitted in the historic Palestra on Penn's campus, Big 5 games throw records out the window for 40 minute...